Treme (HBO television series), 49
Trintignant, Jean-Louis, 16, 19, 57, 66
Truffaut, François, 39, 57, 160; Day for Night (1973), 76, 107–111, 121, 172n7
Truman Show, The (1998), 146–149, 148
Turan, Kenneth, 133
Turing, Alan, 151
Turturro, John, 97–98
2001: A Space Odyssey (2000), 43, 55
Two Women (1960), 15
Two Women (Moravia), 15
Tykwer, Tom, 162, 166n6
Tyldum, Morten, 151
Uhls, Joe, 156
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1987), 14–15, 26–31, 29, 81, 141
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera), 14–15, 26–31
Under Fire (1983), 122, 133–137, 135
Underground (1995), 10–11
Under the World (1987), 52
Valmont (1989), 26
Van Druten, John, 33
Vassilikos, Vassilis, 56
Veloso, Caetano, 8
Venice Film Festival, 89, 125
Vertigo (1958), 6, 78–79
Vidor, King, 96
Vie est à nous, La (Life belongs to us) (1936), 16
Vigne, Daniel, The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), 26
Vigo, Jean, 110–111
Village Voice, 92
voice-over narration, 150–163; Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), 43; American Beauty (1999), 153–156, 157–159; Annie Hall (1977), 159; Badlands (1974), 159–162; Before the Rain (1994), 126; Days of Heaven (1978), 159, 162; Dirty Dancing (1987), 6; Fight Club (1999), 150–151, 156–158; Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), 59–61; The Imitation Game (2014), 151; The Piano (1993), 44–45; Quills (2000), 2–3; Reds (1981), 159; Seven Beauties (1975), 62; Sunset Boulevard (1950), 151–153; The Tin Drum (1979), 22, 44; Tree of Life (2011), 162
Vonnegut, Kurt, 86–88
Vuh, Popol (Florian Fricke), 42–43
Wagner, Richard, 83
Wajda, Andrzej, 12, 50, 52, 53, 76
Walk on the Wild Side (1962), 6
Wall Street Journal, 40
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, 15–16
Waltz with Bashir (2008), 91
Wanderers, The (1979), 97
Ward, Fred, 39
Warshaw, Robert, 73–74
Washington Post, 32, 86
Washington Square (1997), 49
Weir, Peter, The Truman Show (1998), 146–149
Welles, Orson, 74, 78; Touch of Evil (1958), 36–39, 81, 167n2
“We’re Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line” (song), 104
Wertmüller, Lina, Seven Beauties (1975), 55, 61–63
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), 7
Where Do We Go Now? (2011), 116–121, 117
White Dawn, The (1974), 75
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), 76
Więckiewicz, Robert, 50, 52
Wild Bunch, The (1969), 129
Wilder, Billy, 6; Sunset Boulevard (1950), 1–2, 40, 151–153
Wire, The (television series), 49
Wise, Robert, 37, 74–75
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974), 12, 75
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), 7
Woodward, Bob, 32
Wright, Doug, 2
Wyler, William, 96; The Letter (1940), 36
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982), 137
Young Frankenstein (1974), 75
Z (1969), 55, 56–58
Z (Vassilikos), 56
Zaillian, Steven, 63, 65
Zanussi, Krzysztof, 53; Camouflage (1976), 9–10
Zapasiewiecz, Zbigniew, 9
Zsigmond, Vilmos, 10
University Seminars
Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
The University Seminars at Columbia University sponsor an annual series of lectures, with the support of the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Levick Schoff Memorial Fund. A member of the Columbia faculty is invited to deliver before a general audience three lectures on a topic of his or her choosing. Columbia University Press publishes the lectures.
Charles Larmore, The Romantic Legacy 1996
Saskia Sassen, Losing Control? Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization 1996
David Cannadine, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain 1999
Ira Katznelson, Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust 2003
Lisa Anderson, Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century 2003
Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World 2004
David Rosand, The Invention of Painting in America 2004
George Rupp, Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community 2006
Lesley A. Sharp, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer 2007
Robert W. Hanning, Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto 2010
Boris Gasparov, Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents 2012
Douglas A. Chalmers, Reforming Democracies: Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda 2013
Philip Kitcher, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach 2013
Robert L. Belknap, Plots 2016
Paige West, Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea 2016
Illustrations
Travis (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver
The superimpositions that open Apocalypse Now
From the opening of Where Do We Go Now?
Eddie (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) in the opening of Rising Sun